Best Mystery games on PC
Games built around unanswered questions, hidden information, or events that the player gradually pieces together. Players explore, follow clues, and sometimes solve puzzles to uncover the story.
- Clues and hidden information
- Gradual story discoveries
- Exploration and puzzle solving
Related: Exploration, Story Rich, Adventure, Puzzle
752 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Unboxing the Cryptic Killer
Two-player point-and-click escape room with clues split between detectives
90% positive
2,752 reviews
Folie Fatale
Romance horror visual novel with obsessive suitors and branching endings
86% positive
2,697 reviews
The Solus Project
First-person sci-fi survival adventure across alien islands and caves
80% positive
2,627 reviews
Unavowed
Point-and-click adventure investigating supernatural threats after demonic possession
96% positive
2,621 reviews
Detective Grimoire
Point-and-click murder mystery with a swamp creature as suspect
96% positive
2,619 reviews
Crystal Project
Nonlinear voxel RPG with turn-based battles and platforming exploration
92% positive
2,599 reviews
In Other Waters
Underwater sci-fi adventure guiding a scientist through an AI interface
87% positive
2,574 reviews
妄想症：Deliver Me
School-set psychological visual novel with branching paths and music
88% positive
2,551 reviews
Little Goody Two Shoes
Fairy-tale horror adventure with village chores and dangerous nighttime exploration
95% positive
2,550 reviews
Heaven's Vault
Narrative space adventure about archaeology, choices, and decoding ancient writing
84% positive
2,495 reviews
The Escape: Together
First-person horror escape game with puzzles and a stalking creature
78% positive
2,488 reviews
Metel - Horror Escape
First-person horror escape game where you must cover your tracks
94% positive
2,473 reviews
Maid of Sker
First-person survival horror in a hotel where enemies hunt by sound
79% positive
2,468 reviews
While We Wait Here
First-person diner story with cooking, dialogue choices, and looming catastrophe
89% positive
2,466 reviews
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
First-person survival horror with hotel puzzles and a timeline-shifting camera
83% positive
2,371 reviews
Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus
Dark fantasy detective adventure with investigations and action-based deductions
81% positive
2,347 reviews
Murder House
Retro survival horror with a killer stalking an abandoned house
95% positive
2,345 reviews
彷徨之街 The Street of Adrift
Branching visual novel with lesbian romance and line-connecting puzzles
76% positive
2,340 reviews
Paper Bride
Point-and-click horror mystery about a missing bride and Chinese folklore
91% positive
2,303 reviews
Paragnosia
First-person horror game about photographing anomalies in a haunted apartment
90% positive
2,300 reviews
The Chrono Jotter
Horror mystery visual novel about solving murders across time loops
94% positive
2,279 reviews
BURIED STARS
Mystery visual novel about murder in a collapsed broadcast studio
84% positive
2,263 reviews
The House of Da Vinci 2
Renaissance puzzle adventure with mechanical contraptions and time travel
91% positive
2,258 reviews
The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Point-and-click adventure through an apartment building and other people's dreams
87% positive
2,251 reviews